Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Sarah Addison Allen

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• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Opportunity
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration

• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Important
  • Old

• I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Sick

• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Friends
  • Dream

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

  

  Ovid
  • Women
  • Same
  • Just

• Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • World
  • Language
  • Learn

• Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking

• I hate to lose more than I like to win.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Hate

• Women have become at the forefront of these demonstrations and lines in protests - in the medical camps, in the security services, in the strategic planning for the revolution and the strategic planning for the civil democratic society after the revolution.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Women
  • Society
  • Revolution

• The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • Greed

• If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Men
  • Long
  • Running

• I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

  

  Barry Watson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feeling

• I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Great
  • Friendships

• Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Friend
  • Fool

• For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Stubborn